Semi

“His eyes are huge. “Of all the stupid, idiotic, imbecilic, reckless—”

“I get it,” I moan.

“—things to do!” His fingers tighten painfully. “Don’t ever do something like that again!”

Anger makes me see red again. “Why not? If I want to save someone, I will! What good is the Kingmaker without a king!”
― Amanda Bouchet

“I was a dead man,” he whispered, “and you gave me life.”

“You saved my life,” she countered. “Does that make us even?”

“No. You belong to me now.” He grasped her wrist and kissed the back of her hand, a possessive gesture if there ever was one.

“And what are you to me?” Layla asked slyly, refusing to believe he meant that in a bad way. Enki’s fierce declaration of his claim over her simply had the effect of making her swoon.

“Your servant.”

Sweet fucking stars.

She was completely undone.”
― Anna Carven, Shattered Silence

“With an offer like that, how can I refuse?”

He gapes at me. Clearly, my reciprocating was the last thing he expected. I whip a dagger from my belt and plant it at his groin, pricking just enough to make him yelp. Carver freezes.

I cant my head, saying coolly, “I haven’t been spanked much because I do the spanking.”

Beta Sinta laughs, startling the birds in the branches above. “Carver,” he says. “She just handed you your balls.”

Carver grins. “That’s all right, as long as I get to keep them.”
― Amanda Bouchet, A Promise of Fire

“Sound can manipulate emotions better than almost anything else.”
― Alaina Urquhart, The Butcher and The Wren